Robert Shillman
Management
Complicated question and an intelligent question. A lot of question today were very good. We've been through downturns in the past, but they were mainly SEMI-related 1downturns. They were cyclical downturn and those were much easier to understand and much easier to get through, because you knew in another two quarters things were going to pick up. This is a very different. And this is why we decided to cut so deeply on our expenses. We don't believe that this is a short-term. I believe that this is a structural change in certainly the U.S. economy and perhaps in the world economy that we lived for 20 years of growth, exuberant growth, and that is unusual. But people think we're going to go back to that, I think is wrong. We were going to go back to what was usual before in the 1960s and 70s. And that’s why we decided to scale the company back to where it now is, for a much slower growth around the world. The first thing that I think, will pick up will be factory automation. I think we'll see other than a new markets and new opportunities of course which have a rapid rise because of lower base. I believe that we're not going to see a pick-up, even when the economy, or when the economy improves, there is so much, undercapacity, underutilization in the semiconductor industry that we're not going to see, that nobody is going to see a pick-up there, even when the economy improves probably for another year. I talked to a friend of mine, and he said Bob, if you need some equipment, we have 10 of these XYZ testers in crates unopened. So there is a lot of stuff that’s been sold and that was anticipated to be used in '08 and '09 and still in crates. So, even if people start buying far more chips or different chips or whatever it’s going be a long time coming before capital equipment sales go up and therefore before Cognex's sales to those customers goes up. So, the first thing that we'll probably pickup might be SISD actually, SISD because when the things pickup, people are going to build more things. They need more steel, more cars, so SISD and factory automation would be tied, I think, maybe factory automation sooner. Then the [laagered] would be the semiconductor industry. That's my view, but I welcome, Rob's.